3-052-570 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

New arcade, Old Bond-Street, [London]: interior, 1880. 'An arcade is one of the most beautiful and convenient features in the buildings of a city, and the shelter it affords from rain and heat is a great comfort...More imposing and ornamental than any of the existing arcades will be the new arcade in Old Bond-street, which will shortly be opened to the public. It leads, from a little lower down than Burlington-gardens through to Albemarle-street. The general style is that of the French Renaissance. The interior is very imposing, having ten bays, and in width it is equal to the Burlington Arcade at its widest part. It will contain about twenty shops, each of which will be of equal frontage to those in the Burlington, and will be at least five feet deeper. The entire range will have two stories above the shops and a basement. The roof all through will be above the top stories and will be richly decorated with coats of arms of various nations. At each end provision has been made for spacious picture-galleries, and the whole effect will resemble the best class of Continental passages. The architects of the arcade are Messrs. Archer and Green, of 17, Buckingham-street, Strand'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.